In the past week, CNET has reviewed three separate media devices, each costing $300, and one of them was a television. And guess what: the TV wasn’t terrible. The three products were the TCL L40FHDP60 ($309), the 3M Streaming Projector ($299), and the Apple iPod Touch ($299). Seeing them all together got me thinking: which …

Music-streaming service Rhapsody has announced it will be available on Smart TVs from LG, Panasonic, and Samsung starting today, with Sharp and Xbox available in coming months. Although the announcement came today, the service has been available on Panasonic and LG for a few months. Samsung is new with today’s announcement. A Rhapsody app has also been available on Vizio …

If you’re looking for a cheap TV 42 inches or larger, there are a lot of advantages to buying a plasma instead of an LCD. The biggest is picture quality: an LCD is typically not able to reproduce the black levels and contrast of an equivalently priced plasma, and plasma always trounces LCD for viewing angle and uniformity. Entry-level 720p …

Rewind the clock back five years and Oppo was the “go-to” brand for DVD players, with the Oppo DV-981HD one of the best models available at the time. Then Blu-ray happened, and Oppo saw little initial competition for its first Blu-ray player. But since 2009, the Blu-ray player market has shrunk: titans like Sony and Panasonic no longer make premium …

Now playing: Watch this: Sony’s giant 84-inch 4K television 1:40 Sony has unveiled two of its biggest TV innovations of the year, and they’re both inside the new XBR-84X900: it’s the company’s largest screen to date, and it’s one of the first to feature 4K resolution. The XBR-84X900 is the company’s first 4K screen, and comes in the single 84-inch …

Sonos has announced that its streaming-music players now support Amazon Cloud Player, which joins other supported services including Spotify, Mog, and Songza. In July, after an agreement with the four major record companies, Amazon announced iTunes and Windows Media Player library “matching,” meaning users of the Amazon Cloud Player service can upload their libraries to the cloud. Amazon is offering …

At the risk of sounding reductive, New Zealand is most famous for three things: “Lord of the Rings,” those guys on HBO, and sauvignon blanc. Now you can add a fourth item to the list: New Zealand is the home of what claims to be the world’s first film to be sold to the public as a 4K resolution file …

The other day, our audio reviewer Steve Guttenberg told me that when he was choosing his new television he spent a good deal of time at his local electronics retailer testing TVs against each other. But instead of evaluating the picture he was more interested in evaluating the sound quality, which I’m sure did not impress the salespeople who were …

There is a battle going on for control of your living room, and while there are many combatants, there’s yet to be a clear victor. Thanks to a handful of so-called set-top boxes, Internet-delivered video and audio are becoming a big source — if not the main source — of TV entertainment for a growing number of people. Nearly all …

While Westinghouse positions itself as a budget brand, it has shown it’s also willing to experiment with cutting-edge technology. The 55-inch is the company’s first TV to feature a 4k resolution, and is planned to be released in the first quarter of 2013. The TV features a Quad HD resolution, which is essentially a consumer version of 4K, and measures …